SteamOS Hardware Requirements Reveal What Kind Of Computer Will Run SteamOS In Your Living Room

Valve posted the FAQ for SteamOS and revealed the operating system's hardware requirements, in addition to a wealth of other details about how SteamOS works on your computer, what it'll do for you now, and what to expect later as development continues.

Judging from my old Gateway FX laptop with a Nvidia 8800m GTS video card and the way it ran games at 1080p I think the "next gen" consoles are more like a 6 year old re-branded decent gaming pc of that time.

That's funny. This is what you get when PS4 fanboys get cocky waving their specs d*ck on Xbox comment threads. They get cocky thinking they can punch over their weight class and then promptly get their asses handed to them when they try the same in the PC threads.

I was referring to hardware specs and related information regarding steam. Since that really was what the article was about. If someone was going to start an anime spat then take it an anime forum....that's all. =]

If your future means being stuck gaming at 1080p and kicking yourself in the ass when 4K displays become affordable and you can't enjoy them , I would agree the future is here with "next gen" (6 year old gaming pc) consoles.

to have a PC that can play any game at 4k will cost you about 1700 (now) I mean a GTX titan can only run battlefield 4 at 4k resolution at 22 fps THATS A FRIKIN $1000 GRAPHICS CARD (which is 2.5 times the price of a PS4 JUST FOR A GRAPHICS CARD)... Your F**** delusional if you think that 22 fps is a good framerate once youve flipped over 1700-2000 bucks... I'd rather buy a brand new Ps4 for 399 and be able to play great exclusives that PC's will never be able to get even console exclusives *cough*gtav*cough* *destiny*.... So yeah ima buy a ps4 for 399 and not hassle with it for ages because 4k on a 32" monitor will be almost indistinguishable from a 1080p 24" monitor.

So yeah also if you telling me you have a titan good luck because the only way your going to be playing 4k (for newer games coming out next year)... Then be prepared to flip another 1 grand oh and since the next titan will be probs be GDDR6 you will also have to change your MOBO,CPU AND RAM...(and since all of this hase changed probably your PSU, which makes it almost a complete overhaul)...

Also I have a pretty good gaming PC that I bought for 1700 in late 2011/early 2012 and i can easily tell you that i enjoyed my PS3 far more due to the amazing exclusives and the fact that if you play for 30 minutes the graphical differences seem less subtle...

So go ahead pay 1700-2000 dollars just for a slightly better frame-rate and resolution (and since you mentioned monitor specifically it makes almost no difference as a 1080p monitor at 24" is nearly 40/40 vision, which is the max an eye can see). So after you paid all that money learn that you dont recieve amazing games such as Killzone shadowfall, Next uncharted (confirmed), Rockstar games (i.e. GTA), destiny, infamous, driveclub, gran turismo, Metal Gear Solid, God of War, Little big planet, yakuza,resitence... And many, many more...

So basically you fork out about 3-5x the value of one PS4 so that you can play at 4k (which even on a 1,000 dollar graphics card you cant) and loose a bunch of games and a more dedicated online experience, Great obviously a few more rocks rendered on the screen at a slightly higher resolution is worth all that then go ahead buy all the Pc-ness you want.

"So yeah ima buy a ps4 for 399 and not hassle with it for ages because 4k on a 32" monitor will be almost indistinguishable from a 1080p 24" monitor. " you could not be anymore incorrect. if you honestly don't think that 4k or 2560 X 1600 (1600p) does not look a lot better than 1080p you either have never played a pc game beyond 1080p, or you might seriously have vision problems.

guess what , when you want to change pc hardware you can easily sell your old pc hardware online.

i currently play pc games at 1600p (which looks significantly better than 10808p) i can not comment on 4k gaming as I have not tried yet however I am positive it looks incredible. high end pc hardware to run games above 1080p will cost a good amount of money. however pc games at launch or shortly after launch are usually SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper then the console versions of those same games. i have nothing against the consoles and i will probably buy a ps4 for the great exclusives.

BF4 at 4K peaks over 4GB VRAM. The 4GB 780ti's 336GB/s GDDR5 then pages to RAM, which runs at less than 30GB/s. The 6GB Titan has the upper hand in 4K, even if you don't realize it.

@ Beastforlifenoob

I like how you insinuate that a PC has to be upgraded to support the latest graphics card. That's like saying you have to upgrade your TV and couch every time you buy a new console. Since the biggest factors of game performance are the graphics card and having enough RAM, you can throw a Titan in a Q6600 from 2007 and get 95% of the performance of the latest 4770K at 4K.

let that sink in, we could get a single platform for all type of gamer. That platform can be done today and only on pc. Pc can offer the controller experience, the pc experience and the streaming to a device experience already. IF console dies and all the game dev come to it gaming would jsut be better. Kinda like we don't need blu ray and hd dvd consoles need to die.

Pretty much anything on desktop out now supports that. The hdd requirement is probably something to put it to prevent OEMs from skimping on some parts of the PC. Don't want a Windows Vista laptop with 512MB of memory again. I guess this means not to expect Roku type devices to be released with this.

Interesting that AMD is not supported from the get-go but once support has been added, it seems like SteamOS will run just fine on any modern machine. Always great to see that. It'll be great once a few new Steam Machine SKUs roll out giving the consumer choice between Nvidia/Intel, AMD/AMD, AMD/Nvidia or Intel/AMD configurations.

The $500 Steam Machine is quite well-priced, and since it has a 270X in it I am guessing the AMD support will come in sooner than later.

Its actually expected. Why? Because SteamOS is linux. Their repositories are debian.

you might be wondering... so what? Well ... the simple answer : NVIDIA has given linux good driver support for a long time, while AMD has been back ass backwards and has dont a shitty ass job. Go and try to use a radeon card for gaming on linux... yeah that wont go so well..

So its normal that STEAM OS which is linux is not supporting GPUS which dont even have proper drivers to run on linux. When AMD get their shit together in terms of driver support (hopefully will happen in the next 100 years)... then maybe it will happen.

No AMD Support from roll out is abit disappointing fron company like valve, and i have a 780ti, im going to wait and keep an eye on how this OS works out. Im more interested in there Steam Controller than this